The Availability of a System of Two Unreliable Machines Connected by an Intermediate Storage Tank

1 September 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in IIE Transactions

Vol. 15 (3) , 195-201
https://doi.org/10.1080/05695558308974634

Abstract

In this article, the availability of a continuous system composed of two machines with intermediate storage, subject to random failures, is examined using the theory of stochastic processes. An analytical formula for the availability is derived whose behavior in the limit of very large and very small tanks is shown to be correct.

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